outflanking

present participle of outflank

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for outflanking
Verb
  • Adam Kron, a senior attorney at the environmental advocacy group Earthjustice, said any company ignoring or avoiding regulations entirely reminds him of the fracking boom in the early 2010s, when companies moved quickly to drill, poisoning some local communities’ groundwater in the process.
    Taylor Kate Brown, ProPublica, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Build Money-Saving Habits For George Morgan-Grenville, founder of the luxury travel company Red Savannah, avoiding chaos often comes down to avoiding unnecessary fees.
    Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Villa have enjoyed a successful style, evading risk and playing with precision.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Thomas Phillips and his children – believed to be ages 9, 10 and 12 – had been evading police in a remote part of the country’s North Island since December 2021, triggering a manhunt that gripped the nation.
    Todd Symons, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In that film, Redford plays Forrest Tucker, a real-life career criminal known for escaping from prison several times and for committing a string of audacious bank robberies well into his later years.
    Hannah Parry Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The Earth saw a strong geomagnetic storm Sunday night, NOAA reported, reaching a G3 (on a scale of 5) due to the impact of solar winds escaping from a cooler, dense region of the Sun.
    Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Wonnum into safety Tre’von Moehrig and then went off to the races after eluding safety Nick Scott.
    DIAMOND VENCES, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Tony and Zive take off, eluding Henry and the Interpol agents storming the hospital.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And by eschewing its traditional pay-per-view approach, UFC may now finally capitalize on its enormous audience reach.
    John Cassillo, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • And yet, today’s young adults are increasingly eschewing the traditional banking and credit infrastructure altogether in favor of peer-to-peer payment apps.
    Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 1 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Codesphere is breaking the technological bottleneck and shunning hyperscalers with its unique platform.
    Jason Phillips, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This stand-alone status in shunning the former likely explains why America’s federal spending stands at least 10 percentage points lower as a share of GDP than the lions of Europe.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In a new video with Insightec, the Oscar-winning screenwriter, 76, opened up about struggling for years with essential tremor, which left him unable to do simple tasks without shaking, such as holding a cup or writing by hand.
    Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Steam the clams until the shells open, 5 to 7 minutes, depending on the size of the clams, shaking the pan once or twice.
    Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The company designs its own servers internally, bypassing OEMs and collaborating directly with manufacturers to cut costs, enhance performance, and quickly integrate the latest GPUs.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island warned there was no proof of drug trafficking or imminent threat, and Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky questioned bypassing due process for a small boat traveling such a long distance.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Outflanking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outflanking. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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